Everyday Randomness

Vacation Itch

Oh yeah now I remember where I was going with that last post.  Part of our trip this weekend was going to Deal’s Gap, but when we found out that probably won’t happen we decided we’d go ahead and spend the weekend in Pigeon Forge like we’d planned.  It doesn’t look like that’s going to happen either.

Our friend’s parents own a cabin in Pigeon Forge, and they always let us use it, so hubby called and asked our friend’s dad if we could use it.  He said yep, no problem.  Well, turns out our friend’s mom already promised it to a couple that wanted to spend their anniversary in the mountains.  No big deal.  I’d rather them enjoy their anniversary, and we really can’t afford a hotel this weekend.

If I’d known this on Friday I could have planned ahead, but I didn’t, so I took all the extra cash we had this week plus a majority of our savings and dropped it on bills.  I paid a bunch of a month in advance, knocked out a nice chunk on medical bills, and made double payments for both the bike and car payments.

I’d still love to be able to go somewhere this weekend though.  I’m really seriously itching for a vacation.   I called my friend Tony Mac to see if this would be a good weekend for a trip to Tampa, but he’s off somewhere at an undisclosed location for the military this week.  It’s really hard to keep track of where he is and isn’t.  I worry about him too much.  I always know he’s got to be somewhere at least semi safe if he can still check his answering machine messages and return my calls!  He just can’t tell me where he is.

Oh well maybe I can at least convince hubby to pack up the tent and go camping somewhere.  It’s supposed to be pretty nice here on Saturday and Sunday, so maybe I can convince him to go camping at the little county park that’s on the lake one county over.

We’ve got county parks surrounding us on the lake, but none of them are as secluded or as gorgeous as the one I want to go to.  We went there with hubby’s parents on a bike ride for the first time last weekend, and now I basically am set on the fact that we have to camp there.  It’s far enough away to enjoy camping on the lake and close enough to home to take a real shower! lol